Poe and Pan Am Among Pilots

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Lots and lots of network pilot news, including Bosom Buddies for the new millennium.

By Matt Fowler

It's a TV pilot news bonanza! Want to know what new shows the networks are making pilots for (only to then decide, based on quality of pilot whether or not to pick show up for a series run)? We've got you covered. ABC has just picked up:

Poe, a "crime procedural following Edgar Allan Poe, the world's very first detective, as he uses unconventional methods to investigate dark mysteries in 1840s Boston." Kyle XY's Chris Hollier penned the script.

Pan Am - from Sony Pictures TV and ER alum Jack Orman – a "sexy soap set against the Jet-Age about pilots and flight attendants working at the iconic Pan Am airline in the 1960s."

Lost and Found, a multicamera comedy about a "narcissistic New York City bartender and party girl has her life turned upside down when the conservative 18 year old son she gave up for adoption shows up on her doorstep."

Work It - from Friends alums Andrew Reich and Ted Cohen - about…wait for it…"two out-of-work car salesmen who realize that it is now a woman's world and decide that in order to find work again and succeed they are going to have to dress as women to get jobs as pharmaceuticals reps." So, Bosom Buddies for 2011.

Smothered, also from Reich and Cohen, about "a young couple who find themselves smothered by their two very different sets of parents whose only thing in common is that their children are married to each other."

Man Up - from 100 Questions creator Chris Moynihan - a "look at what it takes to survive as a modern man, as told through the eyes of three best friends and the women in their lives."

Meanwhile, FOX has picked up:

Untitled Comedy Project (originally called Chicks and Dicks) - from writer-producer Liz Meriwether (No Strings Attached) – "a young ensemble comedy about the sexual politics of men and women."

CBS has picked up:

Hail Mary - from Silver Pictures - a buddy PI show about "a suburban single mom in Atlanta who teams up with a street-wise hustler to solve crimes."

The Doctor - from Privileged creator Rina Mimoun – about "a mother who reconnects with her adult children when she joins the family medical practice."

I Hate That I Love You - from Will and Grace alum Jhoni Marchenko – a comedy about "a straight couple introduces two of its lesbian friends to one another and what results is both instant attraction and a pregnancy."